But really, I find everything is fine and people including me think of things in too fraught a way. If you have any trouble academia is not for you, or if it is not the only thing for you then you are a traitor to the cause, it is said. Why is loyalty coerced in that way?

What if it is one of the things that were for you, and it was the one of those you chose, and that was legitimate even if there were also other things for you? Can we not allow for that, or does it give the actor too much freedom?

What if in your life there were also other things to do, is that not also legitimate? Why is it that if you ever thought of other things, even riskier, more idealistic, less secure things, you must be considered a crass materialist — especially by people whose material situations are better than yours? Why all the exhortations?

Secretos y Saberes

1. While writing here is an excellent exercise for my English style and for writing as such, it is bad for my style in Spanish. Therefore some posts may be in languages other than English.

2. Corybantic, rather anarchical and possibly Liangian, this blog is opposed to everything I find mean. It criticizes things you may hold dear. It resists authoritarianism and received ideas. It vaporizes Fascists.

3. This blog is a codex you have found. It speaks to one and all. But it also holds secrets and hides its face, for I who now perform the ancient text must adapt its words for modernity. I am a sculpted skull on a stela at Copán.